By asking these electric truck battery questions, Vicki Simons is seeking information like what is pasted below — which she has not yet verified — but specifically with regard to commercial motor vehicles.
By way of background, according to Wikipedia:
An electric truck is an electric vehicle powered by batteries designed to transport cargo, carry specialized payloads, or perform other utilitarian work.
So, Vicki’s electric truck battery questions include:
Battery Weight
1. How much do the batteries for commercial motor vehicles weigh:
– those in all-electric trucks; and
– those in diesel-powered trucks?
Battery Ranges
2. How many miles can an all-electric commercial motor vehicle loaded at 80,000 pounds travel:
– at 70 mph (flat and hilly, separately);
– at 50 mph (flat and hilly, separately); and
– at 35 mph (flat and hilly, separately)?
Recharging Time
3. How long does it take to recharge the batteries in an all- electric commercial motor vehicle (and if this varies, upon what factors does recharging time depend)?
Battery Life
4. How many years do the following batteries for commercial motor vehicles last:
– those in all-electric trucks; and
– those in diesel-powered trucks?
Number of Batteries Required
5. How many batteries are required to operate an all-electric commercial motor vehicle?
Battery Cost
6. How much does each battery in an all-electric commercial motor vehicle cost?
All-Electric Battery Fire Likelihood
7. When compared to batteries in a diesel-powered commercial motor vehicle, how much more likely is an all-electric battery to catch on fire?
Extinguish Electric Battery Fire
8. If an all-electric commercial motor vehicle battery catches on fire, how much more water will be required to extinguisher it when compared to extinguishing a fire from the type of battery found in a diesel-powered truck?
Dead/Flat Batteries Storage
9. Where will the all-electric batteries that no longer work be stored or sent?
Electric Truck Battery Toxicity
10. When compared to batteries in a diesel-powered commercial motor vehicle, what is the level of toxicity associated with procuring, using, and disposing of all-electric commercial motor vehicle batteries?
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This is a Tesla model Y battery. It takes up all of the space under the passenger compartment of the car.
To manufacture it you need:
–12 tons of rock for Lithium (can also be extracted from sea water)
— 5 tons of cobalt minerals (Most cobalt is made as a byproduct of the processing of copper and nickel ores. It is the most difficult material to obtain for a battery and the most expensive.)
— 3 tons nickel ore
— 12 tons of copper ore
You must move 250 tons of soil to obtain:
— 26.5 pounds of Lithium
— 30 pounds of nickel
— 48.5 pounds of manganese
— 15 pounds of cobalt
To manufacture the battery also requires:
— 441 pounds of aluminum, steel and/or plastic
— 112 pounds of graphite
The Caterpillar 994A is used for the earthmoving to obtain the essential minerals. It consumes 264 gallons of diesel in 12 hours.
Finally you get a “zero emissions” car.
Presently, the bulk of the necessary minerals for manufacturing the batteries come from China or Africa. Much of the labor for getting the minerals in Africa is done by children! If we buy electric cars, it’s China who profits most!
BTW, this 2021 Tesla Model Y OEM battery (the cheapest Tesla battery) is currently for sale on the Internet for $4,999 not including shipping or installation. The battery weighs 1,000 pounds (you can imagine the shipping cost). The cost of Tesla batteries is:
Model 3 — $14,000+ (Car MSRP $38,990)
Model Y — $5,000–$5,500 (Car MSRP $47,740)
Model S — $13,000–$20,000 (Car MSRP $74,990)
Model X — $13,000+ (Car MSRP $79,990)
It takes SEVEN years for an electric car to reach net-zero CO2. The life expectancy of the batteries is 10 years (average). Only in the last three years do you begin to reduce your carbon footprint. Then the batteries have to be replaced and you lose all the gains you made in those three years.
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